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The media on the “warpath”

Swiss mass media: a transatlantic transmission belt?

by Thomas Scherr

(13 March 2022) Even though today we are holding one’s breath in suspense by military operations and the question of the aggressor seems to be determined, the responsibility of the media for the tensions towards Russia, which they have actively built-up in the past months and years, must be broached. They have hunted down politics and thus serve as a kind of transmission belt of transatlantic military strategies.

Ukraine & Nukes

by Steven Starr, USA*

(13 March 2022) After a «New York Times» reporter grossly distorted what Putin and Zelensky have said and done about nuclear weapons, Steven Starr corrects the record and deplores Western media, in general, for misinforming and leading the entire world in a dangerous direction.

China & Russia Declare New Era of Multipolarity

On the meeting in Beijing between China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin designed to deepen the integration of the two Eurasian superpowers

by Benjamin Norton*

(13 March 2022) Feb. 4, 2022 may very well be remembered in history textbooks as an important date in the shift of global politics.
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Washington and London try to preserve their domination over Europe

By Thierry Meyssan*

(25 February 2022) Edit. The author succeeds in showing, on the basis of the latest developments around Ukraine, that the alleged threat from Russia only serves to bind Washington and London's NATO allies more firmly under their high command.

“Süddeutsche Zeitung“ and “Tages-Anzeiger“ ditch Nils Melzer

Why is the Swiss UN Special Rapporteur being defamed like this?

(26 February 2022) ts. The UN Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer* announced that he is resigning from his post prematurely. Behind are downright reputation-damaging reports in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the Zurich “Tages-Anzeiger”. In the following we publish Nils Melzer's correction to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The latter refused to print his counter statement.

The Forgotten ones in the House of Light

In Damascus, Catholic nuns take care ofsenior citizens who have lost their families

by Karin Leukefeld,* Damascus

(27 February 2022) In the Beit Nour retirement home in the old city of Damascus, old men spend their remaining years. Almost all of them are alone. Their children have left Syria. Others do not want to or cannot take care of their fathers.